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February 2015

February 08, 2015

Married Catholic priest: “I can’t be a good pastor if I’m a lousy dad or lousy husband”

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a story that will be familiar to a lot of deacons:...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

NY Times: “Many divorced Catholics long for acceptance”

From Sunday's paper: Facing millions of divorced Catholics around the world, many of whom express...

January 23, 2015

Pope Francis reminds Roman Rota that sacraments are free—and annulments should be, too

From Vatican Radio: Pope Francis received the judges and advocates of the Roman Rota on...

January 18, 2015

What we have come to: teenager announces plans to marry her father

Details: A teenager has revealed in an interview that she plans to marry her father...

January 15, 2015

For worse and for better: a husband writes of his young wife’s mental illness

Photo by Jeff Belmonte from Cuiabá, Brazil via Wikipedia A friend posted this on FB yesterday. It...

January 15, 2015

Laicized priest Thomas Williams speaks out on mandatory celibacy

From Kathy Schiffer's blog: “..My basic thought is that personal failures don’t necessarily mean that...

January 14, 2015

Reuters: meet the “father-priests” of the Philippines

Details: Every Sunday morning, dozens of Roman Catholics gather at a small chapel on an...

January 09, 2015

Study finds more reasons to get and stay married

"Signing the Register" by Edmund Blair Leighton (U.S. Public Domain/Wikipedia) From The New York Times:...

December 2014

December 01, 2014

Bishop and minister preside over wedding for 2,000 couples in Brazil

From the BBC: Nearly 2,000 Brazilian couples have got married at an indoors sports venue...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Growing number of clergy vow not to perform any civil marriages

From RNS: What’s the surest way conservative pastors can avoid any government mandate to perform...

November 14, 2014

The booming business of divorce parties

What we have come to, via the BBC: After finalising a painful divorce Wendy...

November 07, 2014

“God is more important than sex”: Couple abstained from sex for 19 months while waiting for annulments

In our pelvic-centric age, some would find this unthinkable. Read on, from The Catholic Sentinel in...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

A response to Chaput: “This can have very serious negative consequences for couples”

A few days ago, I posted on the radical proposal of Philadelphia's Archbishop Chaput, who...

October 21, 2014

Chaput: clergy might stop signing marriage licenses as “principled resistance”

Strong words from the Archbishop of Philadelphia: Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput says he was "very...

October 18, 2014

What about the sacrament of reconciliation for the divorced and remarried?

John Thavis has just posted a summary of a speech given at the synod by...

October 18, 2014

The final message from the synod

Or, at least, from this first two-week session. The second half kicks off next year....

October 15, 2014

AP: Religious groups to seek exemptions that would allow them to refuse service to gays

Details: Alarmed by the broad expansion of same-sex marriage set in motion by the U.S....

October 13, 2014

“An earthquake at the synod”

That's how veteran Vatican reporter John Thavis described a document released this morning: In pastoral terms,...

October 12, 2014

The synod at half-time: “The climate of freedom…is producing positive results”

A little analysis in the pages of America, from Gerard O'Connell: Participants who have attended...

October 12, 2014

What many Catholics don’t know about divorce and receiving communion

With all the talk lately about divorce and communion, I've been reminded of how much...

October 10, 2014

An important move at the synod?

Yes, says veteran Vatican observer John Thavis: The Vatican just announced that Pope Francis has named...

October 10, 2014

From the synod: two more cardinals back communion for divorced and remarried

From John Allen in Crux: Within the last 24 hours, two Italian cardinals have stepped...

October 09, 2014

From the synod: married couple asks bishops to clear up “contradictory advice” on contraception

From CNS: A married couple from Brazil told Pope Francis and the Synod of Bishops...

October 08, 2014

From the synod: the witness of a Catholic woman married to a Muslim

She's Mrs. Jeanette Toure, from the Ivory Coast. An excerpt from her remarks: How can a...

October 07, 2014

Cardinal Marx: German bishops back Kasper proposal

From John Thavis: Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich said a strong majority of German bishops...

October 07, 2014

From the synod: “We must develop more robust methods to share the truth about marriage”

Today, a couple from the United States, Alice and Jeff Heinzen, addressed the bishops. The...

October 07, 2014

From the synod: Filipino couple speaks of need for “innovative forms of accompaniment”

This morning, the bishops heard from a husband and wife from the Philippines who are...

October 06, 2014

From the synod: married couple speaks about welcoming gays, divorcees

This may have gone largely unnoticed, but it seems significant to me: an intervention at the...

October 04, 2014

Wisconsin couple to speak at synod

From CNS: Alice and Jeff Heinzen will not only be serving as auditors for the...

October 02, 2014

VIDEO: Burke and Kasper on communion—UPDATED

CNS has just released these two brief videos, in which Cardinal Raymond Burke and Cardinal Walter...